I. LOGIC IN GENERAL

• Two fundamental sources of knowledge.
  • Sensibility, the capacity to receive representations. The science of aesthetic.
    • How objects are given to us.
  • Understanding: the power of knowing an object through representations. The science of Logic.
    • How an object is thought.
• Only through their union can knowledge arise.
• Two types of Logic:
  • Logic in general: contains absolutely necessary rules of thought. The logic of elements.
  • Logic of the special employment of the understanding: contains rules of correct thinking about certain kinds of objects. The logic of a particular science.
• General Logic:
  • Pure: abstracts from all empirical conditions. Deals with mere forms of thought.
  • Applied: understanding under subjective empirical conditions.

• Does not abstract from the entire content of knowledge.
• Excludes only those modes of knowledge which have empirical content.
• Treats the origin of modes in which we know objects.
• Not every kind of knowledge a priori should be called transcendental
  • Only that by which we know that certain representations can be employed or are possible a priori.
  • space is not. The knowledge that the representations are not empirical is.
  • Distinction between transcendental and empirical belongs only to the critique of knowledge, not to the relation of that knowledge to its objects.

• Truth as agreement of knowledge with its object:
• General criterion is it must be valid in each and every instance regardless of how objects vary (i.e. in their relations).
• Since truth concerns this very content, a sufficient and general criterion cannot be given.
• Truth as regards knowledge in respect of its mere form:
• Logic will furnish criteria of truth.
• But, cannot establish truth in relation to objects.
  • General Logic
    • Analytic - least negative
    • Resolves formal procedures
    • Exhibits them as principals of logical criticism of knowledge.
    • Must be applied to the form of all knowledge before we proceed to determine if its content contains truth.
    • Necessary but not sufficient to establish objective truth.
  • Dialectic - general logic treated as an organon for production of objective assertions.
    • This is a misapplication.
    • "Logic of Illusion."

• Transcendental Analytic:
  • That part of transcendental logic which deals with elements of pure knowledge yielded by understanding.
  • The principles without which no object can be thought.
• Transcendental Dialectic:
  • Misuse of transcendental analytic.
  • Dialectic illusion.

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